Indian Air Force – Shows SAR
Boosting Indian Air Force, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday has received the first aircraft out of the 36 Rafale jets at the Merignac airbase in France. While the new…
A-10 Warthog New SAR Payload
Warthogs finally are getting Link 16 datalinks, too,” D’Urso explained. “With the integration of Link 16, the A-10 will be able to communicate and exchange data with all other legacy…
Russian Spy Plane Seen Flying Over Chicago: Reports
A Russian spy plane reportedly flew over Chicago on Aug. 13 at a high altitude, according to a local news report. The plane, a Tupolev jet, departed from Dayton, Ohio,…
Leonardo and Diamond Aircraft Partner on SAR surveillance
Leonardo and Diamond Aircraft Industries are teaming up to offer a version of Diamond’s popular twin-engine DA62 aircraft customized for maritime surveillance missions. The new variant, designated DA62-MSA (maritime surveillance…
U.S. Air Force SAR Gunship
The Ghostrider reached initial operational capability in 2017. The weapon package of new modification includes dual electro-optical infrared sensors, a 30-mm and 105mm cannon, AGM-176A Griffin missiles, all-weather synthetic aperture…
Rafael adds SAR capability to Litening 5, Reccelite XR EO pods
Rafael Advanced Defence Systems has teamed with Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI's) Elta Systems to upgrade the Litening 5 and Reccelite XR all-weather stand-off airborne electro-optic (EO) targeting pods with a…
Russian Military Uses SAR Over the United States.
Usually, observation planes approaching a foreign airspace experience a strong reaction, often in the form of an interception and an official complaint from the diplomatic sphere. This month, however, several flights…
3D Printed Array Facilitates IMSAR Radar
IMSAR LLC and Optisys, LLC, collaborated to create a low-Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) radar designed specifically for use on High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) platforms. The high-altitude radar system…
Japan to Sell Old F-15s, With SAR Payloads
Tokyo also planned to develop an RF-15 reconnaissance jet with surface-scanning synthetic aperture radars, but this program was canceled in 2010. The first F-15J flew in 1980, and the aircraft…
CSIR Developing Synthetic Aperture Radar
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is developing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology for aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites. The Council noted that synthetic aperture radars…